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If I recall some statistcial data about the average Zentraedi, I hear that they are about 35-40 feet tall compared to the VF-1 Battroid mode height which is 47 feet tall. Therefore I believe that some VF'S can wear Zentraudi clothes depending on their battloid height but putting on clothes is a rather hard thing to do since you have to move the control levers that move the arms in an intricate fashion to put on the clothes.

Wow when you think about Kalvasflam, you're right becuae I honestly took offense to some of the users comments during my topic about SK redesigning the VF-1 and that's a good moral I've learned from you so thanx for pointing that out to me greatly appreciate it

You may want to watch it there Kavasflam,. You might have offended some people of direct European decent with that comment you made unless you were joking with them.

Thanx Dave for pointing that out. I had somewhat of a hard time telling the differnce between top speed and max speed because I assumed it meant the same thing. I forgot the ordinance loadout on fighters can offset their speed potential due to parasitical drag on the wing pylons.

Yes I have because I like to walk around with no socks on in my apartment (it has a wooden floor), but I don't get them as much as I used to since my father cleans up the sweeps the floor clean more frequently

Carpet, of course because you don't get splinters on carpets if you did with wooden floors.

I think Keifer Sutherland in Phone Booth was best movie badguy of all time IMHO.

No IMHO because the Super Hornet is a little slower than the F-2A/B. The F-2 can do a solid Mach 2 and the Super Hornet can do about Mach 1.8. I also think that it's best if Japan gets some FB-22 Raptors to replace their fighter/bombers once Lockheed finishes producing them. Also, here's a link to some info about the F-15K http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/f15/f-15k/

You know, I'm not surprised that Japan won't buy Russian fighters because they hate Russia with an extreme passion but I was thinking why the hell not? After all,Their flankers boast superior manueverability that some European and American fighters lack but it appears that none of that matters to them since they can't trust Russians. In addition to this, I don't see why Japan is being far too picky about their next generation fighter. If I recall, the primary purpose of their JASDF branch is to provide homeland defence over their airspace from enemy aircraft and missle attacks and I think that the F-22 is an excellent choice for a replacement of their F-15's since they fulfill the specific role of being an interceptor (aside from the fact that it's a fighter/attacker), which is good if you consider the scenario of N. Korea launching 10 nukes to hit 10 major cities in Japan and then JASDF can deploy about 10 Raptor's to intercept and destroy them in a few minutes or so. I also meant to include that I don't trust those Arab countries with our Raptors as well because they may use that technology against us. It's already bad enough as it is that Iran perfected missles that are able to slip past U.S radar systems as a result of us teaching them how to do so and I don't want that to happen with any other country that is ready to go to war with us. So in the end, we should give the Raptor to Japan, Britain, and Israel since these are the only allies we can trust.

I used to have the first two episodes of Macross Zero 2 1/2 years ago that I downloaded off iMesh still in Japanese with the english subtitles but if you want them you should visit iMesh's website to download the program I used to obtain these bootlegs.

Man I overestimate flight sim's too much because actually I lied about saying the F-22 is easy to fly when it really isn't because when I played Jetfighter V for my PC, it was so difficult for me to shoot down a single enemy fighter, so I haven't played it in about 2 months or so but that's why I prefer console FS's because they are more easy to play than the PC counterparts becaue they are far more realistic than console FS's. I thought that I heard some F-22 pilot say that the F-22 was remotley easy to fly but that was probably just his honest opinion about it. Man, I think it would suck if the F-22 made it in the hands of just about every single one of our allies arsenal even if it was bogged down in terms of performance so they can't surpass or equal the original F-22's we have because they have one the greatest stealth fighters of all with it's ups/downs. I just think that it would be good if Japan was the only one to have them and not S. Korea and the other's because I honestly think it would loose it's appeal and fear factor since it's somewhat of a one of a kind thing. What I'm trying to say is that when you have something good, you should make it very hard to get. It sucks when everybody has what you have and that sometimes it's good to be greedy with the things you got.

Were you talking about the F-22 flight sims in particular or any flight sim that has the F-22 in it because I have Jetfighter V for my PC and you're right about it being easier to fly than the eagles but I've never played any F-15 PC flight sims to notice the difference.

If thats the case with the F-15'S then I think that JASDF should stick with their F-15X license. I don't wanna keep my hopes up to high or anything but for some reason, I just have a strong feeling that the F-15X is just going to be a production line version of the ACTIV which would spawn single seater and dual seater variants, just what I've been waiting for! However, I could be wrong and it maybe something else in mind. I doubt that JASDF would receive the licensing rights by Lockheed to maufacture F-22's since Retracting the head Ter Ter insisted, but chances are that JASDF may order a small number of Raptors fresh from out America roughly about 15-20 of them and have them reserved for special operations IMHO. I also think it's logical for JASDF to stick with the F-15 upgrade package because like Shin stated, this is the only fighter that they are intimately familiar with inside and out and it would be faster and easier for them to adjust to this upgrade and would cost them significantly less money to do so. To be honest, I believe that the new F-15's cockpit may hypothetically be a direct inplementation of the F-22's which may be a little to complicated and advanced for the veteran JASDF F-15 pilots but then will eventually get used to it since current F-15 models don't have FBW control systems. I also believe that if JASDF were to obtain licensing rights to maufacture F-22's, I have a good feeling that it may be in small numbers due to production cost of making such an advanced fighters and due to the fact that's there's too many F-15's stationed around Japan's air bases too phase them out completely from service.There's also a grim possibilty that JASDF will just produce or order a small number of F-22'S from America to simply supplement their F-15's. I think it would be good if Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki, and Fuji managed to manufacture both F-15X's and F-22's in moderate numbers. In addition to all of this speculation about Japan's choice for a next generation fighter, I wonder what kind of new weapons system these new F-15X will use aside from those new sidewinders. Maybe they might add a large calibur machine gun that fires explosive rounds or the same type of ammunition that Russian fighter's use or a radical new prototype missle concept design. P.S How long will JASDF continue to use the F-2's?

Korea is getting the F-15X as well? I already know that they have their F-15E's but I thought that Lockheed was working with them to create some xperimental training aircraft.

My mother, she's 2/4 black and 1/4 japanese 1/4 Native American which makes me 3/5 blaack 1/5 japanese and 1/5 Nato American.

Man I wish my Japanese brethren would stick with trying to buy the F-22J and not those other European fighters. If Japan sticks with that F-15FX, then chances are that it might be a production line version of the ACTIV with the canards FBW controls, data link capabilties and thrust vectoring. Either way they should stick with F-22 IMHO. Also, I found this link to Lockheeds new concept design for a stealth strike tanker below: http://www.alert5.com/

I don't wanna ride the bandwagon in terms of flaming Shadow Chronicles too but I can't judge this show if Ihaven't seen it just yet but as long as there's alotta action and a well developed story to it, it's good IMHO. However I do think that HG made a big mistake trying to make a sequel out of Mospeada. If you ask me for MHO, I think that Mospeada was like all those other sci-fi anime shows that don't deserve a sequel to it. I maynot have seen all the episodes to it but I can assure you that it didn't need a sequel it was already good as is it was. To create a sequel to this anime would be like having unprotected sex with your sister( I know that's not related to it but I thought that I'd say that to be funny) The same thing can be said about some movies where there are some that deserve a sequel and some that don't unless they are box office smashes. In terms of making a sequels to stuff, I just don't see how after 20 years HG decides to do a sequel to mospeada and it turns out to suck like some of you guys say. It's like they thought of the idea at the very last minute out of the blue and besides, because the show is about 20 some years old I don't think I'm interested in one since it took so damn long to do one. If HG planned on doing a sequel to Mospeada then they should have done it along time ago back in the mid 90's or a few years after it first aired in America. But what's next Brokeback Chronicles, Shadow Chronocles Reloaded or Shadow Chronicles Revolutions?!

Ahh damn, How dumb of me to not notice that. Thanx Chas for that out

You know Roy, I understand that you may be slightly mad at some of these users for labeling their threads with "official, super, mega" because they get to big and after reading your first post in this thread, I decided to do what you said by not calling any threads in particular of mine's super, official, and mega like I did with the my Space Shooter topic. You also make a good point about new threads not appearing for days as a result of this but a feasible suggestion that I have would be to limit each super thread to 10-15 pages before having them locked and forcing users to start a new thread. I think that's a system that works very well among the users and administrators.

Now that Kelsain pointed out the typo in the word dimensinal, I have reasonable doubt to believe that the ad is fake but whoever did it did an excellent job with the other stuff

You know robopimp, I really do have a hard time telling if that flyer ad is real or photoshoped but I think that this DYRL Movie maybe a remake of the 1984 original or it maybe rereleased on big screen digitally remastered for everybody who didn't see it in the first place. That's what they did with Gundam F91 where they showed it in U.S theatres for the first time in N.Y.

Macross 2 IMHO was fairly decent in terms of the storyline. I saw it for the first time two years ago around this time of month on the Encore channel's Animidnight block. IMHO, I also thought that the voice acting was decent for all of the characters and I thought it was rather interesting the way how the Marduk actually spoke in their native toungue because there' no other Macross series out there that did that I think. However, to be honest with you, I mainly liked Macross 2 because of the mecha and like zeo mare, I agree that they should produce toys and model kits of the VF-2SS as well as the other valks.

The B:TAS series was pretty good for it's time as well as Batman Beyond IMHO. I can't believe that BIG O was inspired by B: TAS anyway. but my favorite cartoon of the 90's was the 1994-1995 Iron Man series. I liked both of the intro songs for both seasons and I have them on my computer now. I remember I used to watch that show 8 years ago in the morning before my mom took me and my brother to school.

Well Knight26, since the VF-11 has canards and if an F-14 had them too it would look like a bootleg VF-11 but then again when I think about it would look more like a VF-0 in terms of design aesthetics but that's your opinion and I greatly respect that but I don't want to start an argument about this so I'll just forget I ever said that.

Shin, I DID remember hearing about that plan for NASA to retrofit F-14'S with large engines for transatmospheric flight research on some website but for NASA to use F-14D's for test planes no, but I really wish that they did with the tomcat. I really wonder what it would look like with canards and thrust vectoring nozzles like you say or even better a new wing design concept with FBW control systems. (ain't sayin that I hate the swing wing design). Also, thanx Knight 26 for correcting me about NASA's acronym and the work they do. I also didn't know that they canned the idea for the X-33 space shuttle a long time ago, so it looks like we gotta stick to the usual design. P.S Shin, if you add TVC's to the F-14D we may get a bootleg VF-11!